Night Games

The Harleys-James and Katherine -have what is euphemistically described as an "open marriage".While sharing the same luxury home ,they have separate sleeping arrangements and both openly sleep with other people .James ,an influential political consultant is brutally murdered ,his throat cut ,and Katherine claims she saw who did it - a burglar she foiled in the act of robbing the house .The police ,lead by co-Commander of Homicide ,Lieutenant Frank Hastings are called in and quickly pick up a suspect who is identified in a line up by Katherine .Neither Hastings nor his colleague ,Friedman ,a Nero Wolfe like figure with a distaste for the physical exertion required by field work,are convinced that she is telling the truth .Indeed ,she is not for she could not possibly have seen the murder as she was with a lover at the same time .Suspicion falls on Amy ,a nubile babysitter who was paid for kinky sex by the deceased and before the case is resolved sordid details of child abuse and molestation are revealed